CVE-2020-25969

Publication date 5 July 2023

Last updated 3 October 2025

Ubuntu priority

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

gnuplot v5.5 was discovered to contain a buffer overflow via the function plotrequest().

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
gnuplot	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.10 kinetic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 5.2.8+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 5.2.2+dfsg1-2ubuntu1+esm1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 4.6.6-3ubuntu0.1+esm1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 4.6.4-2ubuntu0.1~esm1

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Patch details

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Package	Patch details
gnuplot	Upstream: https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/gnuplot-main/ci/1f36c4fbb3e8e0beb213b4a29ab463e43db9ef42/

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H